Rice tells Pakistan to act, otherwise US will

RolandTD20Kdrummer

http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080075492

"US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has told Pakistan that there is "irrefutable evidence" of involvement of elements in this country in the Mumbai terror attacks and it had no option but to act urgently "otherwise, the US will act."

Rice, who travelled to Islamabad after a visit to India earlier this week, "pushed" the Pakistani leaders to move against the perpetrators of the terror strikes.

The clear message was conveyed by her to Pakistan's top leadership during her brief stopover here on Thursday, diplomatic sources said.

Rice said that there was "irrefutable evidence" of the involvement of Pakistani elements in the Mumbai attacks, the sources said.

In India, Rice was shown the extensive evidence gathered by investigators to prove the linkages between the Mumbai attackers and Pakistan-based elements, especially the banned Lashker-e-Toiba terror group, they said.

The sources said Rice, during her interactions with President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, made it clear that Pakistan needs to act effectively to bring the perpetrators to justice. She warned that the "US will act if Pakistan did not".

Rice also told Pakistan that it "needs to act urgently and effectively to avert a strong international response". She said that Pakistan's response needs to be "effective and focused" and that India was thinking on "similar lines", Pakistan's Dawn newspaper said."



It brings this statement to mind. Who's driving the bus?



"Ben Gurion on Pakistan, published in the Jewish Chronicle, 1967:

"The world Zionist movement should not be neglectful of the dangers of Pakistan to it. And Pakistan now should be its first target, for this ideological State is a threat to our existence. And Pakistan, the whole of it, hates the Jews and loves the Arabs.

"This lover of the Arabs is more dangerous to us than the Arabs themselves. For that matter, it is most essential for the world Zionism that it should now take immediate steps against Pakistan.

"Whereas the inhabitants of the Indian peninsula are Hindus whose hearts have been full of hatred towards Muslims, therefore, India is the most important base for us to work from against Pakistan.

"It is essential that we exploit this base and strike and crush Pakistanis, enemies of Jews and Zionism, by all disguised and secret plans."




Expanding the military reach, and involvement around the globe. At what point does anyone expect this "war on terror" to stop? Deeper and deeper it goes.

ladygooddiva

she should shut up in this case ..it is good that she talks but act no way ...it can end in a disaster

RolandTD20Kdrummer

Which brings this to mind looking forward... Expect now see now story after story of how this is all ultimately connected to Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda in the media.

Pakistan link to Mumbai attacks evident: Obama's adviser

": A prominent adviser to US president-elect Barack Obama said the Mumbai attack was an act by global jihad, and targeted what Osama bin Laden called the "Crusader-Zionist-Hindu" alliance.

Terrorism expert Bruce Riedel said at Brookings Institution, a prominent think tank in Washington DC, that the Mumbai attack was a "seminal event in the history of international terrorism, and particularly in the history of global jihad".

"Ayman Al Zawahiri, the ideological leader of Al Qaeda, and Osama bin Laden have spoken many, many times to their followers about the danger posed to Islam by what they call the Crusader-Zionist-Hindu alliance, and that is precisely the target set that we saw here," he said.

"We've seen a phenomenon in Al Qaeda's operational activities in the last several years, which I would call the Pakistan-ization... more and more of its activities outside of the South Asian arena, and particularly in western Europe, used Pakistanis, principally members of the diaspora in UK, Denmark, Germany, and Spain," Riedel, an expert on Al Qaeda, said.

Meanwhile, a new report said ISI had a plan to deploy sea-borne terrorists for an operation in Kashmir last year. That plan was hijacked by the Lashkar-e-Toiba (and maybe, Al Qaeda) to launch a terrorist attack in Mumbai. The ISI plan, the report in Asia Times said, was crafted by Ashfaque Kiyani, who was then the head of ISI. After he became army chief, Kiyani moved the Muzaffarabad training camps to Karachi. The report said the ISI plan was shelved a few months ago but Zakiur Rahman, an LeT commander, went ahead with it, and even improved on it.

That the LeT was behind the Mumbai attack is now virtually beyond doubt. Just this week, US director of national intelligence Mike McConnell blamed LeT for the attack, the first time a US official publicly blamed the group. "The same group that we believe is responsible for Mumbai had carried out a similar attack in 2006 on a train and killed a similar number of people," said McConnell, speaking at Harvard University. "Go back to 2001 and it was an attack on the Parliament," he added.

Echoing him, Riedel said, "This is a group that was founded in the late 1980s and early 1990s with the assistance of the ISI and with the assistance of Osama bin Laden, who was an important early fundraiser for the group. Osama's then spiritual mentor, a Palestinian named Abdullah Azam, was one of the charter members in the creation of the LeT. It was formally announced as an organization in Afghanistan's Kunar province, long a stronghold of Al Qaeda."

He added, "This was an extraordinary radical movement to begin with, and, over the last decade, it has become increasingly radical. It does not seek simply the end of the Indian occupation of Kashmir or to create an Islamic state in Muslim majority parts of South Asia, rather it seeks the creation of a caliphate to dominate all of South Asia well into Central Asia, something akin in its mind to a recreation of the Mughal Empire."

Riedel also focused attention on the fact that the LeT's greatest strength comes from the Pakistani diaspora, particularly in the UK and the UAE. "This group has extremely close links and is very active in the Pakistani diaspora in the UK. Some 800,000 strong. And, in the Persian Gulf, almost 2 million strong, where it raises much of its funding," Riedel said. "

edit: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/3798295.cms

Commy

RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:

Which brings this to mind looking forward... Expect now see now story after story of how this is all ultimately connected to Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda in the media.

the last day of the attacks, while they were still happening, they were interviewing India's ambassador and he was hinting that the al-qaeda was responsible for the attacks. the very next guest on I think it was cnn was trying to say yeah yeah we can't speculate at this time but it was probably al-qaeda.

As the attacks were going on they were linking them to al-qaeda. at this point I don't believe in al-qaeda anymore.

I agree they will try to exploit this to expand their war of terror.

NoK

something is happening and it doesn't sound good...

Pakistan Militants Burn More than 160 U.S., NATO Vehicles

Militants blasted their way into two transport terminals in Pakistan on Sunday and torched more than 160 vehicles destined for U.S.-led troops in Afghanistan, in the biggest assault yet on a vital military supply line, officials said.
The U.S. military said its losses in the raid near the northwestern city of Peshawar would have only a "minimal" impact on its operations against resurgent Taliban-led militants in Afghanistan.

However, the attack's boldness will fuel concern that Taliban militants are tightening their hold around Peshawar and could choke the supply route through the famed Khyber Pass.

Up to 75 percent of supplies for Western forces in landlocked Afghanistan pass through Pakistan after being unloaded from ships at the Arabian sea port of Karachi. NATO is already seeking an alternative route through Central Asia.

The attack at the Portward Logistic Terminal reduced a section of the vast walled compound to a smoldering junkyard.

Terminal manager Kifayatullah Khan said armed men flattened the gate before dawn with a rocket-propelled grenade, shot dead a guard and set fire to a total of 106 vehicles, including about 70 Humvees.

Khan said shipping documents showed they were destined for U.S. forces and the Western-trained Afghan National Army.

The attackers fled after a brief exchange of fire with police, who arrived about 40 minutes later, Khan said.

The nine other guards who were on duty but stood helplessly aside put the number of assailants at 300, Khan said, though police official Kashif Alam said there were only 30.

At the nearby Faisal depot, manager Shah Iran said 60 vehicles destined for Afghanistan as well as three Pakistani trucks were burned in a similar assault.

The attack was the latest in a series that have highlighted the vulnerability of the supply route to the spreading power of the Taliban and other Islamic militants in the border region.

Suspected insurgents also attacked the Faisal terminal last week and burned 12 trucks loaded with NATO supplies, including several Humvees. Two guards were shot dead.